Cambre

Almost seven weeks after a robbery suspect shot him, police Detective S. Lynn Cambre returned to work Monday. Cambre, 37, will be on light duty for about three weeks while damaged nerves heal. He was shot Aug. 13. John D. Dirgins, 24, is in the Seminole County jail awaiting a late October trial on charges of attempted murder, armed robbery and attempted escape.

How often do you get to see video of a 6-foot-4 naked jogger in swimming goggles getting stunned by a Taser? A tiny digital camera attached to an officer's electronic weapon and used by fewer than a dozen law-enforcement agencies in Florida now makes it possible for them to record Taser takedowns. And in an unusual move, the Winter Park and West Melbourne police departments — the only ones in Central Florida equipped with the digital cameras in their Tasers — are releasing a collection of videos showing the rare footage captured from the point of view of a cop's most controversial weapon.

A Casselberry police detective shot in the chest Tuesday was released from intensive care Friday after surgery to remove a bullet.Lynn Cambre was shot when he confronted a suspect after a store robbery in Seminole Plaza shopping center. On Wednesday, doctors removed a bullet that had lodged within a quarter-inch of his spinal cord.A spokesman for Orlando Regional Medical Center said Cambre was being moved to a patient floor Friday. He was listed in stable condition.

Edgewater defeated Boone 306-317 Monday in the Orlando Country Club Championship, an annual 18-hole boys golf match between the two teams. Edgewater's Gavin Cambre shot a 71 on the par-72 course, marking the best score of the day. Greg Russell recorded a 77 for the Eagles while Mike Freeman and Trey McInvale both shot 79s. Alexan Lima shot a 74 for the Braves. Edgewater has won the event the past four years, and it is now 11-6 on the season.

Detective Lynn Cambre spends much of his time digging up information that could lead to an arrest. But last month, Cambre and his father-in-law, Preston Huff, did digging of a different kind and in the icy lands of Alaska.The duo's plans to pan for gold didn't pan out when they discovered that the small mining site Huff had purchased before they left Florida was a five- mile trek up the side of a snow-smothered mountain. After making the five- hour hike once, they decided it wasn't worth the effort.

Police are asking for help in identifying a check-scam artist who bilked eight Barnett Bank branches out of $6,400 in August.On one day, the man cashed checks for $800 apiece at eight bank branches in the Orlando area. The checks, stolen in Casselberry, were made out to an assumed identity and cashed using a falsified identity card.Casselberry police have a photo of the con artist, but they don't know his real name.A pocketbook containing the checks disappeared Aug. 9 when a woman left her purse unattended while grocery shopping, Police Detective Lynn Cambre said Wednesday.

DETECTIVE LYNN Cambre is right. Police in Casselberry are underpaid.Compare them with letter carriers, who start at about $19,000 plus benefits.We also have local politicians working part time who are paid more than police.Jim CofinoCASSELBERRY

Wounded police Detective Lynn Cambre and his wife carried their lobbying efforts for higher police salaries to the city council this week, but received little support from councilmen.During the audience participation portion of Monday night's meeting, Sharon Cambre made an emotional plea for higher salaries to attract and keep qualified police officers in the city.''If you don't care about the men who protect your lives, don't bother to run for office because you won't get elected,'' Mrs. Cambre told the council, adding that she would walk door-to-door during the upcoming election campaign to work against councilmen who did not support higher police pay.Cambre, who is recovering from a gunshot wound suffered during the Aug. 13 investigation of an armed robbery, gave councilmen a six-page letter in which he outlined his concerns that the city's police department has reached ''the critical point'' due to unfilled vacancies and low pay.''We cannot properly protect and serve the citizens of Casselberry in the condition we are now in,'' Cambre wrote.

By Mark Andrews and Prakash Gandhi of The Sentinel Staff, August 14, 1985

A Casselberry police detective was shot in the chest Tuesday as he exchanged gunfire at close range with a suspect in an armed robbery.Detective S. Lynn Cambre, 37, was in stable condition in the intensive care unit of Orlando Regional Medical Center on Tuesday night. A .25-caliber bullet pierced his right lung and is next to his spine. Doctors have not tried to remove it. Another shot grazed his left shoulder.Within minutes police had a suspect in the shooting. A man who carried papers identifying him as Kenneth Douglas King, 28, was pulled out of Grassy Lake, just northwest of the intersection of State Road 436 and U.S. Highway 17-92.

From his hospital bed as he recovers from a gunshot wound, Casselberry police Detective Lynn Cambre Thursday issued a plea for higher salaries for his department to attract more qualified officers to help fill crucial vacancies.The 40-person department is at least seven people short, Cambre said. A vacancy in the detective division cannot be filled because the patrol squad cannot afford to lose an officer to promotion. The city does not attract enough good police applicants because its salaries are among the lowest in Seminole County, he said.

Entering Wednesday's second round of the American Junior Golf Association's HP Boys Championship, Heathrow's Jhared Hack found himself in danger of not making the tournament's last two rounds at Bay Hill Club and Lodge. Hack made sure that would not be an issue, shooting 1-under-par 71, assuring himself a spot playing on the final two days and also putting himself back into contention for a top spot, by finishing the day in a three-way tie at 148. "I played solid today," Hack said. "I didn't even think about making the cut. You can only do what your best is, and thinking about it just puts more pressure on yourself."

ORLANDO -- Sam Saunders enjoys pressure. He is getting a good dose of it this week at the American Junior Golf Association's HP Boys Junior Championship being played on his home course, Bay Hill Club and Lodge. Saunders, who began the tournament as a favorite, shot an opening-round 71 Tuesday to put him in a three-way tie for third place. He placed third in the tournament last year. "I put the pressure on myself," said Saunders, the grandson of golf legend Arnold Palmer. "But whoever said pressure is a bad thing?

Dale Cambre doesn't even like to look through the rows and rows of postcards found these days on the shelves of any T-shirt joint in Daytona Beach.They seem almost a competition in tackiness, a combination of beefcake, cheesecake and just plain cheesy. As souvenirs, most aren't worth keeping around any longer than the time required to read the next sentence.Or less.``I don't mail those ugly postcards,'' Cambre said, scrunching her face in distaste.Cambre knows postcards. She has written a book, Daytona Beach: A Postcard Tour, that reflects the history of Volusia County's tourism capital through postcards from the first quarter of this century.

CASSELBERRY - Chief Durbin Gatch said it's time for him to move on - after working for the city police force for more than 25 years.After eight years as police chief, Gatch, 50, is considering another career either as a teacher or as a consultant working with young people. He officially retires from the police force Friday.``It's been gratifying, but I reached a pinnacle and felt it was time to move on,'' he said. ``Police work gave me structure and discipline. I will miss the employees, citizens and commissioners who were always so supportive.

For nine weeks, Thomas Gavin was a happily married man. He had exchanged diamond wedding bands on Valentine's Day in a simple civil service in a county branch office in Casselberry.Things turned sour, Gavin told Casselberry police, when his wife said she would leave him if he didn't buy her a $17,000 car. Gavin, 57, Apt. 204, 650 Kenwick Circle, Casselberry, didn't take his wife seriously. When he didn't buy the car, she moved out two days later, he told investigators.On Thursday, Susan Eleanna Gavin, 36, of Kissimmee was arrested and charged with bigamy and grand theft.

Two police officers did nothing wrong when they shot an armed bank robbery suspect, according to two reports released Wednesday.Detectives Lynn Cambre and Greg Hepburn had been on administrative duty since the July 21 holdup at the Crown Savings Bank on Live Oaks Boulevard near U.S. Highway 17-92.Ronald Jeremy Powers, 20, pointed a gun at the officers but was shot three times before he could pull the trigger. He was arrested on armed robbery and other charges.The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said the officers were justified in using deadly force.

Still on the mend four months after he was shot by an armed robber, Casselberry Police Detective Lynn Cambre said he tried to go back to work too soon after nearly being paralyzed by a .25-caliber bullet.Cambre, 37, returned to duty six weeks after his release from a hospital. Surgeons had taken a slug from his back, which was lodged less than a quarter- inch from his spinal cord.But just over two weeks later Cambre was forced to go back on disability leave because lingering nerve damage caused pain in his right leg and foot after a few hours on the job. His back, which had not bothered him since he left the hospital, also started hurting.

Two police officers did nothing wrong when they shot an armed bank robbery suspect, according to two reports released Wednesday.Detectives Lynn Cambre and Greg Hepburn had been on administrative duty since the July 21 holdup at the Crown Savings Bank on Live Oaks Boulevard near U.S. Highway 17-92.Ronald Jeremy Powers, 20, pointed a gun at the officers but was shot three times before he could pull the trigger. He was arrested on armed robbery and other charges.The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said the officers were justified in using deadly force.

Two police detectives shot and wounded a fleeing bank robbery suspect Friday after he pointed his gun at them in a busy office park.Before the suspect could fire, the officers shot him three times. Investigators later discovered the suspect's gun carried deadly armor-piercing bullets.For one of the officers, the confrontation must have seemed eerily similar to another chase 10 years ago. Lynn Cambre was wounded Aug. 13, 1985, by a fleeing robbery suspect only a few hundred yards away from Crown Bank.

Police are searching for a man who has swindled upwards of $1,000 from stores and restaurants during quick-change scams.The most recent hit was at a Carvel Ice Cream Bakery in Lake Mary.A recent scam at the Baskin Robbins Ice Cream shop in Casselberry typifies the swindler's style. He bought some ice cream and asked if the clerk could change first a $100 bill and then a $50 bill. He was able to con the woman out of $150.Since hitting the Casselberry Winn-Dixie store for $300 on Jan. 13, he also has stolen hundreds of dollars from the International House of Pancakes, the former Village Inn and the Ponderosa, all in Casselberry.